HEDGEHOG in a Sentence

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Only the ineffective word "hedgehog" illustrated his vision of Europe, bristling with guns, poised with planes.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEDGEHOG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hedgehog
 n.  small European insectivore, and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines
Classic Sentence:
1  So she went in search of her hedgehog.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
2  Only the ineffective word "hedgehog" illustrated his vision of Europe, bristling with guns, poised with planes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
3  And their queer, crude life seemed as unnatural as that of hedgehogs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  When she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away.
2  The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other.
3  The hedgehog curled up in a prickly ball.
4  A hedgehog often contracts its body into a ball.
5  Snails are a tasty treat for hedgehogs.
6  Some animals, such as hedgehogs, exist in a state of suspended animation during the winter.
7  The balls were live hedgehogs, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.